#thing

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#enthusiastic #happy #make #need #really

Do noble things, not dream them all day long. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#day #dream #long #noble #them

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#except #living #man #more #nothing

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. ↗

— Hugh Kingsmill

#cured #hanging #only #string #the only thing

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#always #another #brains #carry #else

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #me #safe #seems #surrounded